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Stephanie Cruz did a double take when she entered one of her computer science classes at the University of Florida in the first week of fall 2015. A woman was teaching it. A woman also was teaching the next class — and the next. Cruz, now a senior, went from a college career in... Read More →

A University of Florida’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering professor is among 106 researchers President Obama on Thursday named as recipients of the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, the highest honor bestowed by the United States Government on... Read More →

Assistant Professor of Nuclear Engineering  Nuclear engineer Kelly Jordan is the director of UF’s training reactor, one of the oldest university reactors in the United States. The nuclear industry is one of the last to switch from analog to digital technology, and the UF reactor... Read More →

Mat Chandler doesn’t have a magic wand or a vial of pixie dust, but at the intersection of art, science and technology that is the University of Florida Infinity Fab Lab, he conjures up magic all the same. Chandler is the guiding force behind the Fab Lab, likely the most... Read More →

When Merrie Shaw was working on her science fair project on nematodes in sixth grade, the topic resonated with her because the pests were a problem for her family’s Alachua farm. Spraying pesticides meant leaving the land fallow for six months to let the toxic pesticides wear off... Read More →

A dozen or so polymer jellyfish float in an aquarium in Tommy Angelini’s engineering lab, not alive but freaks of nature nonetheless, about to rock the world. Just months ago, these jellyfish could not have existed; there was no way to make something so soft. That changed in... Read More →

An outstanding high school science fair project has led to a University of Florida College of Agricultural and Life Sciences freshman being invited to attend the Nobel Prize ceremonies in Stockholm, Sweden in December. UF CALS scholarship recipient Carly Crump won the all-expense... Read More →

The National Science Foundation today announced grants to Florida International University and University of Florida totaling nearly $8 million that will position the state to become a national hub for research into making homes and businesses safer in hurricanes and tornadoes.... Read More →

The University of Florida Training Reactor was commissioned in 1959 as part of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace program, and today it is one of the five oldest university research reactors still licensed. As it approached the half-century mark, it was due for a... Read More →

Imagine trying to recreate the eruption of Mount St. Helens or the collapse of the World Trade Center. “Sometimes, experiments are not an option,” says UF mechanical and aerospace engineering Professor Bala Balachandar. And even if he could simulate such complex events in the... Read More →